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Winter
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
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Boreas, the north wind, and Oreithyia (the daughter of a king of Athens) as a couple in love, as personification of Winter. Oreithyia holds a burning torch. In the background children by a fire and people on their way to a city. In the margin an eight-line poem, in two columns, in Latin.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineWinter. 1604. Crispijn van de Passe (I). Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
